This report, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), summari...
Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Collateral Consequences Resource Center explores the extent to which court debt—such as crim...
This guide to gender-responsive approaches was developed by The Council of State Governments Justice Center in partnership with the National Resourc...
According to this journal article published in the Harvard Law Review, laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of ...
A large proportion of people in the criminal justice system have substance addictions: a Bureau of Justice Statistics study found, for example, that n...
As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
This article, from the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, addresses the problems faced by individuals who have been harmed by the continued availa...